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Living Room / Lifehacker asks what are your favorite utilities..

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 08:00 PM »

"Send a list of your must-have programs and why you can’t live without them to erica at lifehacker.com. We’ll give ‘em a spin and you may see your favorite as an upcoming Download of the Day."

hey guys - if one of the donationcoder.com apps falls into this category please email them and let them know.

http://www.lifehacke...ite-utilities-124623

send email to:
Editor : Gina Trapani
email: [email protected]
aim: goim?screenname=ginalifehacker&message=type+your+tip+here

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 07:13 PM »

that looks quite interesting.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 07:12 PM »

they're on your keyboard

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug: F&R using BaseURL instead of URL when launching web shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 07:11 PM »

good find, i will correct in next version, i had no idea such a thing was even possible in an internet shortcut file.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 04:31 PM »

ok i see it; hey, if it makes people happy, who am i to say no

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 03:47 PM »

i saw something about up and down buttons and activated it, but i don't see any difference.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 03:19 PM »

what buttons are these? where in config? are you sure its not just in version 1.1 of smf?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 02:27 PM »

we absolutely can do all of the nircmd stuff right now using the existing alias commands/groups,
someone just needs to make some nice groups.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Comments from osnews.com post about the review

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 02:26 PM »

good suggestions.

and from a programmer's perspective, rar is unacceptable for use in code because of licensing.  i'd much rather use zip or 7-zip.  though im told from another programmer that the 7-zip sdk is a mess.  but there are lots of friendly zip libraries so its only a matter of time for 7-zip.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Help with URL Snooper

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 02:03 PM »

chr im not sure i understand your problem.

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Living Room / Re: Answer in another area?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 01:18 PM »

well you can just copy and paste, or i could move his post here, but i think he'll see it here and answer, so i dont think you need to do anything more.

would be nice to hear what everyone uses for alarms and cron stuff.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Fix ReDownload of Incomplete Downloads

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 10:06 AM »

right and downloaders let you do things like say "download all the mp3s on this page", one after the other.
and even when you have a fast connection, the server might not.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 2.0 Beta problem: cannot find Chinese fonts in Text objects

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 08:06 AM »

emis, do you think there are many chinese users who would find this feature useful?

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Living Room / Re: NOD32 config info at Wilders - good but a quick warning

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 06:32 AM »

great post; thanks carol - i use nod32 and both this and the original thread at wilders is very useful.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 06:20 AM »

yeah, maybe i should hold off on uploading so frequently.
my best advice to people is if you see me uploading a beta and you aren't the kind that likes to install new beta every couple days, just ignore these betas until i stabilize

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Living Room / SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK - SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK - SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK!!!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 05:22 AM »

https://www.donation....php?action=yearbook

follow the link at the bottom of the page to modify your yearbook signature/quotation.

come on guys, show your pride and add your quotation!!!!

[note: only charter(donating)/honorary members are shown in the yearbook]

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 05:10 AM »

1.07.07 uploaded - it was ignoring alt and control modifiers if the "launch with digit keys" was unchecked.

ps.
i have now switched off my launch with digits setting, and configured alt+# to do my launching, and ctrl+# to do launch and stay open.
i'd be interested to hear what others have configured, and waht people thing should be the default setting.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / authors with donationware apps but no web space?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 04:17 AM »

If there are other programmers who have written some donationware/freeware and who don't have web space, just email me and we can set some space up for you.

skrommel made a simple start page for such users so far (i love the picture and am thinking about making it, or some version of it,  the new donationcoder.com logo):

http://www.dcmembers.com/

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Best Archive Tool / Comments from osnews.com post about the review

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 03:40 AM »

some interesting comments about the review from an osnews.com post:
http://www.osnews.co...nt.php?news_id=11775

lots of people seem to like izarc (http://www.izarc.org/)

someone else mentioned UltimateZip and lamented it not being in review: http://www.ultimatezip.com/

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Best Archive Tool / Re: WinRK issues

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2005, 03:24 AM »

Hi Malcolm,

First, welcome to the site.  As i've said in the past, a developer who is interested in hearing what people think and interested in addressing concerns of users is worth their weight in gold.  I'm sure zaine will respond to your questions when he sees this.

This is a good opportunity to remind people here that everyone has different tastes in user interfaces, and has slightly different ways that they use programs.  Users should not just assume automatically that they are going to have the same reaction to a program that a reviewer had.  Use our reviews as a starting point and check out the programs for yourself.

WinRK Home page: http://www.msoftware...o.nz/WinRK_about.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 09:24 PM »

the terms are confusing, 'alias' does seem like it might refer to a word that could stand in for a search term.
maybe i should drop the term 'alias' and just refer to what we are talking about here as "GROUPS"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 09:11 PM »

kevin, what you are asking about will be implemented, but it isnt yey.
what you are talking about is what we have decided to call "modifiers".

the regular expression commands we are talking about now are just for alias groups, where you type in some expression and are shown a preset list of results.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:29 PM »

that makes a lot of sense to me and seems quite sensible.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:27 PM »

what i would do with the POST is have a small f&r helper util submit the post date and just sent the resulting reply to be rendered in the browser of choice.  not too hard to do.

as for canonical F&R format, yeah i just realized that my proposed format is not good since | characters can be used in regular expressions, so some other kind of multicharacter separator would be needed.  maybe xml would be best.

as for different group names, well my thinking was that most of the time youll just want to be importing these links, and so all you really care about is that when you download a set of 40, they are pregrouped into 5 groups or so, which will be created on the fly, rather than have to manually sort each one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:08 PM »

just be careful about going overboard veign -
i hear developer's sometimes talk about booby trapping their programs to erase files on the users computer, or make the program behave erratically.  these can backfire on a developer by causing real anger from people who might have been potential customers, and can make people believe your program is buggy and thus not worth purchase.

my thoughts are like this:
the best protection against piracy is complicated issue.
but the best protection against losing money to piracy is much simpler matter. most people who pirate stuff are probably never going to buy it no matter what; some proportion can be convinced to donate/buy if they like it and see worth in it.  aim for them.  regular improvements, good tech support, etc.
just my current thoughts - i'm not saying that a medium level protection might not serve to encourage people to purchase programs, just that focusing on protection is probably focusing on the wrong sliver of potential customers, and the time might be better spent addressing the needs of other users.

the story with ultraedit is a good example; they moved to using Armadillo protection for exactly 1 release version - they completlly alienated their loyal customers with the slowdowns in startup.  next version it was gone, and everything went back to normal - i guess they decided that the piracy was probably just spreading the market share and any improvement in converting sales with better protection was causing a much worse damage in public relations, etc.

just some thoughts, take them for what they're worth.